Birth Of Lord Krishna

Birth Of Lord Krishna

Siddhi B Ranjitkar

At midnight of eighth day of Bhadra (August/September) dark fortnight, Lord Krishna was born to the parent locked up in the lightless cell. He was the eighth child born to Devaki and Vasudev. Lord Vishnu himself incarnated in Krishna to bring back the order when so many demonic spirits had incarnated in the rulers and powerful royalties who had actually created chaos in the world not following the rule of law, and had been causing tremendous sufferings to the common folks. So, Lord Krishna’s mission was to end such chaos in the society sending the wicked rulers to heaven, and bring back the rule of law.

The divine spirit told Vasudev to transfer the just born baby to another place where a girl child was born and swapped with her. With the assistance of the divinity, Vasudev managed to take the baby out of the prison cell and go to Gokul and left the baby there and took the girl child born to Yashoda and Nandababa, and returned back to Mathura.

Kamsa: one of the demonic rulers was happy to know that the baby was not a son. The eighth child of the couple of Vasudev and Devaki was supposed to be a son as the ascetic prophesized, and he would be the cause of the death of Kamsa.

However, Kamsa did not like to leave even the girl child alive, and took the baby by her legs and spun her over his head when he was about to hit her on the wall, she slipped away and said, “Kamsa, you could not take my life but a baby boy was already born in Gokul who would take your life eventually.”

Yashoda and Nandababa named the baby boy Krishna to suit the body color of the baby. He was so dark that it gave rise to the saying “as dark as Krishna.”

Krishna grew up in Gokul as any normal babies. However, Krishna was not an ordinary baby then a toddler and finally a teenager in Gokul. He did many miracles even at his early years of life.

Kamsa was surely upset because someone had already born to kill him. However, Kamsa was not to give in. He thought out plans to exterminate toddler Krishna in Gokul. Kamsa sent one powerful demonic monster after another to take the lives of the children of his age, and caused the death of so many small children en mass in Gokul causing panic to the parents.

Krishna was not to die in the hands of the powerful demons rather those demons lost their lives. Krishna as the divine incarnation has supernatural power. So, no matter how mighty the demons were Krishna managed to take on one demon after another.

Kamsa had no more powerful demons left anymore to send them to Gokul in a mission to finish off Krishna. Krishna had been growing day by day. He had been a teenager. He had a brother senior to him named Balaram. They were more friends than brothers.

So, the childhood of Lord Krishna was not so easy but he enjoyed the childhood. He had to live with all the possible danger to his life. However, he enjoyed his early childhood going with the friends and stealing cream and yogurt from the next-door home, fed yogurt to the friends and him, too, got caught up by a chance, and serve the punishment bound in ropes.

With the passing of days, then weeks and months, Krishna growing up fast, Kamsa had been restless. He knew that the prophecy of the ascetic would come true if he were not to end the life of Krishna. He spent many sleepless nights thinking out viable and possible conspiracies to take the life of Krishna.

This time, Kamsa thought of powerful wrestlers in a wrestling ring or arena, and let them take the life of Krishna. Kamsa believed that the strong and skilled wresters would not have any problem of squeezing Krishna out of this beautiful world. That was a nice dream Kamsa had about bringing Krishna to an end.

Kamsa sent one of his trusted and loyal courtiers to Gokul and invite and bring Krishna to the wrestling show to be held in Mathura soon. However, the courtier knew the Kamsa’s motive, and did not want Krishna to risk his life.

Krishna’s parents did not want Krishna to go to Mathura because they thought that it must be certainly a conspiracy to destroy Krishna. So, Yashoda and Nandababa prayed Krishna not to go to Mathura. Krishna had a commanding argument with his parents, and ultimately managed to convince them of nothing wrong could go to him in Mathura or in any mundane world.

Krishna and Balaram set off for Mathura along with the courtier Kamsa had sent to. They took a long journey to Mathura. On the way, the courtier hinted at the possible danger to the life of Krishna while in Mathura. Krishna simply accepted it and took the journey with ease.

In Mathura, women married or single en masse ran after Krishna. They had heard how charming Krishna was, and how he had charmed the women cow herders in the forest in Gokul while they were grazing their cows on the grassy land in the forest area. Some of the husbands went to Kamsa and complained that Krishna had charmed their wives, sisters, and even daughters to go after him.

A majestic show of wrestling game was arranged in a large stadium in Mathura. All the high officials including the ministers were seated in the splendid seats built for the special occasion. Kamsa sat among them taking the majestic seat. Krishna and Balaram got the extraordinary seats in the stadium apparently for having a good view of the wrestling matches to watch.

Wrestlers had been warming up to fight against each other. Soon the match started off. Wrestlers demonstrated their skills in wrestling and one game after another entertained the extraordinary audience.

Then, one of the wrestlers invited Krishna and Balaram to the wrestling arena. It must be just for a fun, Balaram thought. However, Krishna knew what was waiting for them. Wrestlers began to fight with Balaram and Krishna. That was not a fun really. Fights went on. Balaram and Krishna fought with the wrestlers whoever came forward, and ultimately faced Kamsa who jumped into the arena and fought with Krishna. Kamsa certainly lost his life as the ascetic prophesized at the hands of the eighth son of Devaki and Vasudev.

Krishna went to the prison where his grandfather had been serving the jail term his own son Kamsa had passed on him, and released him from prison. The old man wanted his grandson Krishna to take over the reign. Krishna’s mission had not completed then and there. So, Krishna move on to another prison where his parents were serving the jail term under Kamsa for no faults of theirs, and freed them, too.

Then, Krishna’s mission was to eliminate the rest of the demonic spirits.

Krishna did not spare even his own nephew Abhimanyu tricking him to remove the safety bracelet he was wearing when Abhimanyu was going to war.

He did the same thing to Duryodhan, who would have been immortal if Krishna had not told him to wear at least underwear to stand in front of his blindfolded mother, who was supposed to see her son naked, and make his body not destroyable when she removed her blindfolds, and saw his whole body. However, the body part covered by the underwear became vulnerable to destruction.

Krishna had another grand design to finish off hundreds if not thousands of demonic spirits prevailing then. That design culminated into the Great War at Kuruchhetra, which was the most sacred place, whoever got killed or died there went straight to heaven. So, Krishna was so compassionate that he sent even the devils to heaven holding a regional war in such a place.

When Pandavas went to heaven they saw all those folks killed at Kuruchhetra had been already enjoying the heavenly lives before they could reach there. They were annoyed, as those devils had already been there where only the most pious folks were supposed to be. That was called Krishna Lila means the grand design of Lord Krishna.

On the eighth day of Bhadra, devotees visited the temples and shrines dedicated to Lord Krishna from the early morning. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of devotees visited Krishna Mandir in Lalitpur from the early morning until the late night.

Devotees made special offerings to crawling Krishna. They offered him all sorts of baby foods. They put an idol of baby Krishna in a cradle and swing it to amuse him singing songs in praise of Lord Krishna.

September 2, 2018